Greens on the Ballot!

Posted by Geoffrey Cubbage558.40sc on December 11, 2017

Monday, Dec. 11, 2017 - The final day to file objections to candidate ballot access petitions has passed, and the Illinois Green Party slate for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Board of Commissioners went unchallenged. Your Illinois Greens will be on the ballot in the March 20, 2018 primary election!

The hard work of many volunteers helped us submit roughly double the required number of signatures. It's unfortunate that Illinois law still enables the anti-democratic petition challenge process, in which candidates can be removed from the ballot by frivolous objections, but we're thrilled to have fended off challengers in the 2018 cycle.

The MWRD-ILGP campaign will continue to focus on serious issues facing Chicago voters: climate change, transparency and accountability, and flood-preventing infrastructure that benefits us all, not just private corporations and Democrat Party donors.